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Cichlasomatinae

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Subfamily of fishes

Cichlasomatinae
Rocio octofasciata
Nosferatu pame
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Subfamily: Cichlasomatinae
S. O. Kullander, 1998
Type genus
Cichlasoma
Swainson, 1839

The Cichlasomatinae are a subfamily of cichlid fishes, including all cichlids native to the Greater Antilles (Cuba and Hispaniola), United States (southern Texas), Mexico and Central America, and many of the cichlids from South America (the other South American subfamilies are Astronotinae, Cichlinae, Geophaginae, and Retroculinae). The subfamily Cichlasomatinae is often divided into two tribes: Cichlasomatini and Heroini, however some authorities classify these two tribes as part of the wider Neotropical and marginally Nearctic subfamily Cichlinae.

Genera

This subfamily contains about 56 genera and 260 species:

References

  1. Wm. Leo Smith; Prosanta Chakrabarty; John S. Sparks (2008). "Phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolution of Neotropical cichlids (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Cichlinae)" (PDF). Cladistics. 24 (5): 624–641.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Cichlidae". FishBase. April 2015 version.
Taxon identifiers
Cichlasomatinae


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